"Landmine people," said Pyrrha, and when she said it Nona's brows crossed in confusion, she said: "Some people were put into the universe to rig it to explode, then walk away ... I always fell for that." -Tamsyn Muir, "Nona the Ninth." New York: Tor Books, 2022. Another name to add to my ongoing series: Hoodoos, Sucking … Continue reading Landmine People
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Identifying a Stupid Person
"...a stupid person causes damage to others while deriving no gain, or even possibly incurring losses. We invariably underestimate the number of stupid individuals in circulation as the probability that a certain person is stupid is independent of other characteristics or credentials (e.g., they can have a Ph.D. or be President). We (the non-stupid) are … Continue reading Identifying a Stupid Person
Some People Are Toxic, Avoid Them
"You can only work for people you like......Some people are toxic avoid them. This is a subtext [to working for people you like]. There was in the sixties a man named Fritz Perls who was a gestalt therapist. gestalt therapy derives from art history, it proposes you must understand the ‘whole’ before you can understand … Continue reading Some People Are Toxic, Avoid Them
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